Sir Duncan Campbell, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Duncan Campbell (d. 1545) was a Scottish landowner and soldier.

Duncan Campbell was born circa 1597 in Colquhoun, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was the second son of Dugald Campbell of Auchinbreck and Mary Erskine, and succeeded him in 1641.[1] He bought Carnasserie Castle from the Marquess of Argyll in 1643.

He served in Parliament for Argyllshire from 1628 to 1643.[1]

During the Irish Wars of the early 1640s, Campbell led his Covenanter troops from Argyll in the massacre of many local Catholic MacDonalds on Rathlin Island.[2] On 2 February 1645, back in Scotland, he led Argyll’s troops at Inverlochy where he was taken prisoner and killed, probably in retaliation for his massacre of the Catholic MacDonalds a few years earlier.[1]

His sister, a poet known as Fionnghal Chaimbeul wrote a Gaelic lament on the battle of Inverlochy where her brother was killed and her son Hector Roy Maclean had fought on the opposing side.[3]

Marriages and family[]

He married first Margaret Blair, who was born about 1575. She was the daughter of the Lord of Blair, and died without issue. He married secondly, Marion Maxwell, daughter of Patrick Maxwell of Newark. He married third, 1628, Dame Jean Colquhoun, daughter of Alexander Colquhoun of Luss, widow of Alan Cathcart, 5th Lord Cathcart (1600–1628). She was born about 1610.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, 2nd Baronet". geni_family_tree.
  2. ^ ^Royle, Trevor (2004), Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638–1660, London: Abacus, ISBN 0-349-11564-8 p.143
  3. ^ Anne Frater, 'Chaimbeul, Fionnghal', Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall, Siân Reynolds, 'New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh, 2018), p. 83.
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Preceded by Baronet
(of Auchinbreck)
1641–1645 		Succeeded by
Dugald Campbell
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